The Spirit of '76

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The Spirit of '76

To someone whose musical tastes took root in the disco decade, Interstate '76 is a dream come true, an adrenaline-pumped video game with a funk soundtrack straight out of Studio 54.

Interstate '76 takes place in an alternate-universe version of The Year of Our Bell Bottoms, where a gang of auto mercenaries are trying to destroy the largest oil reserve in the US and leave the country at the mercy of nefarious OPEC bosses. You play Groove Champion, a reluctant vigilante fighting the mercs. Accompanied by Taurus, an ace driver blessed with a most massive Afro, you battle in the shifting sands of the Southwest, brandishing guns, mines, and missiles, and executing spectacular leaps over cliffs and canyons.

The wonderful graphics move swiftly and smoothly - which they better, since this game runs only on Pentium PCs - and the car's controls feel like a dream. After you battle your way through the challenging (but never unfair) single-player story, there's a multiplayer mode in which up to eight players can bring out da noise, bring out da rocket launchers over the Net.

Conjuring up state-of-the-art gameplay, Interstate '76 pays tribute to the spirit of two eras.